VMAX – deleting a thin pool, its easy…

Here we will discuss the procedure to delete the thin pool. Thin pools will be containing DATA devices and will have TDEVs (Thin devices) bound on it. Let’s go through the procedure in detail.

For deleting a thin pool,

1. Ensure no thin devices (TDEVs) are bound to the pool.

2. All the TDATs should be in disabled state.

You can check the pool status by running the command,

symcfg -sid xxxx show -pool T_Pool_1 -thin -detail

This will show the pool state and details including TDEVs bound and enabled TDATs. If there are any TDEVs bound to the pool, you may either migrate the data to a different pool, or you can unbind the devices by running the command (if there are no data in it)